Rants about Life, Politics, Stupid People, and anything else that just trips my trigger. If you are offended by bad words and someone else's opinion based on whatever info is available, maybe this isn't the place to visit. If not, come on in, tie up, grab a beer and stay awhile. Comments are welcome, Really. Living Life Through the Windshield!

Sunday, December 17, 2006

A useful idea to pass on to your family and friends - especially children.

The concept of "ICE" is catching up quickly.

It is simple, yet an important method of contact during emergency situations.

As mobile phones are carried by majority of the population, all you need to do is store the number of acontact person(s) who should be contacted at during emergency as "ICE " (In Case of Emergency).

The idea was thought up by a paramedic who found that when they went to the scenes of accidents, there were always mobile phones with patients, BUT they didn't know which numbers to call. He therefore thought that it would be a good idea if there was a nationally recognised name for this purpose. Following a disaster in London, the East Anglican Ambulance Service launched a national "In case of Emergency (ICE)" campaign.

In an emergency situation, Emergency Services personnel and hospital staff would then be able to quickly contact your next of kin, by simply dialling the number stored as "ICE".

Please forward this. It won't take too many "forwards" before everybody will know about this. It really could save your life, or put a loved one's mind at rest. For more than one contact name simply enter ICE1, ICE2 and ICE3 etc.

Thursday, November 23, 2006

1. Talk about a huge breast!2. Tying the legs together keeps the inside moist.3. It's Cool Whip time!4. If I don't undo my pants, I'll burst!5. Whew, that's one terrific spread!6. I'm in the mood for a little dark meat. 7. Are you ready for seconds yet?8. It's a little dry, do you still want to eat it?9. Just wait your turn, you'll get some!10. Don't play with your meat.11. Just spread the legs open and stuff it in. 12. Do you think you'll be able to handle all these people at once?13. I didn't expect everyone to come at once!14. You still have a little bit on your chin.15. How long will it take after you stick it in? 16. You'll know it's ready when it pops up.17. Wow, I didn't think I could handle all of that!18. That's the biggest one I've ever seen!19. How long do I beat it before it's ready?

Thank you for your response. Your response tends to ask many more questions.

1. If there is so much decline in the use of the Layaway programs, then why are the layaway areas always full, especially during the holiday season when our local stores in Panama City Beach and the stores in Virginia Beach, VA always having to rent trailers during the holiday season to hold all the layaways?

2. What other retailers, other than the high end stores have phased out layaway?

3. As for your credit offers, what about those who don't have credit cards, or who do not qualify for credit?

4. What about the people who are on fixed incomes or work for the minimum wage scales?

5. Is Wal Mart going to ensure those customers who apply for these credit cards going to get them?

The above questions are very legitament. Not everyone has credit cards or qualify for them, an area where the layaway program allows for them to purchase more higher priced items from your stores. What about these people. WalMart in its adds etc, screams to the heavens about how much it cares for its customers. Doesn't seem like it now. Answer these questions.

Thank you for your inquiry concerning our Layaway Department. Today's consumers have several payment plan options that were not available when layaway programs were first created. Because of declining use and increasing costs, Wal-Mart will phase out layaway service this year as the company joins most other retailers who phased out layaway years ago. To assist our customers, we are offering one last opportunity to use the layaway service this Christmas season. Customers will have until November 19th to place items in layaway and merchandise must be picked up by December 8th.

Wal-Mart is also working to offer customers new payment options. We already have zero interest offers for 6 and 12 months for current Wal-Mart cardholders. And for the first time, customers who apply for a new Discover or Wal-Mart Credit Card will receive $20 cash back when they apply at the register and purchase at least $100 on their card the same day.

Thank you,Wal-Mart Customer Service

For further correspondence regarding this issue, please reply to this email.

----Your Original Comments Were----

Shopping today at my local supercenter, I read a sign at the layaway area stating that layaways would only be excepted until Nov, 18, 2006 and must be picked up by Dec 8, 2006. I asked about this and was told by the associate that WALMART was stopping it's layaway program. With all due respect, are you nuts? In my area there is a Kmart, a Walmart and a Target. Walmart is the most shopped store of it's kind. One of these reasons is due to it's prices and for the local population, exspecailly during the holiday season, the layaway program your stores provide which allow those of us in the lower income brackets the ability to purchase more high priced items "over time" without having to extend ourselves on credit. Without the layaway program at Walmart, I am afraid alot of people in my income bracket and lower will be shifting to Kmart just to be able to purchase these higher priced items the way we have for years. Again, I think the closing of this program ought to be thought out and reconsidered.Thank you.

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Saturday, November 11, 2006

For those that haven't heard yet, Wal Mart is doing away with the Layaway program at it's stores. What a bunch of crap that is. Guess Kmart will be getting alot more business at Christmas this year! Wal mart must be loosing their minds...

Friday, October 27, 2006

I am sorry but after hearing they want to sing the National Anthem in Spanish - enough is enough. No where did they sing it in Italian, Polish, Irish (Celtic), German or any other language because of immigration. It was written by Francis Scott Key and should be sung word for word the way it was written. The news broadcasts even gave the translation -- not even close. Sorry if this offends anyone but this is MY COUNTRY - IF IT IS YOUR COUNTRY SPEAK UP ---- please pass this along~

I am not against immigration -- just come through like everyone else. Get a sponsor; have a place to lay your head; have a job; pay your taxes, live by the rules AND LEARN THE LANGUAGE as all other immigrants have in the past -- and GOD BLESS AMERICA!

PART OF THE PROBLEM

Think about this: If you don't want to forward this for fear of offending someone-----YOU'RE PART OF THE PROBLEM !!!!

Will we still be the Country of choice and still be America if we continue to make the changes forced on us by the people from other countries that came to live in America because it is the Country of Choice??????

Think about it!

All we have to say is, when will they do something about MY RIGHTS? We've gone so far the other way, bent over backwards to not offend anyone, that I am now being offended. But it seems that no one has a problem with

That. This says it all! This is an editorial written by an American citizen, published in a Tampa newspaper. He

Did quite a job; didn't he? Read on, please!

IMMIGRANTS, NOT AMERICANS, MUST ADAPT.

I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, we have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of Americans. However...... The dust from the attacks had barely settled when the "politically correct! " crowd began complaining about the possibility that our patriotism was offending others.

I am not against immigration, nor do I hold a grudge against anyone who is seeking a better life by coming

To America Our population is almost entirely made up

Of descendants of immigrants. However, there are a

Few things that those who have recently come to our country, and apparently some born here, need to understand. This idea of America being a multicultural community has served only to dilute our sovereignty

And our national identity.

As Americans.....we have our own culture, our own

Society, our own language and our own lifestyle. This culture has been developed over centuries of struggles, trials, and victories by millions of men and women who have sought freedom.

We speak ENGLISH, not Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language. Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society,

Learn the language!

"In God We Trust" is our national motto. This is not

Some Christian, right wing, political slogan. We adopted this motto because Christian men and women.......on Christian principles............. Founded this nation..... And

This is clearly documented. It is certainly appropriate to display it on the walls of our schools. If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another part of the world as your new home.........because God is part of our culture.

If Stars and Stripes offend you, or you don't like Uncle

Sam, then you should seriously consider a move to

Another part of this planet We are happy with our culture and have no desire to change, and we really don't care

How you did things where you came from. This is OUR COUNTRY, our land, and our lifestyle. Our First

Amendment gives every citizen the right to express his opinion and we will allow you every opportunity to do so! But once you are done complaining....... Whining...... And griping.......about our flag......our pledge......our national motto.......or our way of life..I highly encourage you to take advantage of one other Great American Freedom....

THE RIGHT TO LEAVE.It is Time for America to Speak up If you agree -- pass

Saturday, October 14, 2006

Just an idea. . . .COULD WORK YOU KNOW!

The best way to stop using so much gas is to deport 11 millionillegal immigrants! That would be 11 million less people using our gas. The price of gas would come down.

Bring our troops home from Iraq to guard the border. When theycatch an illegal immigrant crossing the border, hand him a canteen, rifle and some ammo and ship him to Iraq.

Tell him if he wants to come to America then he must serve a tourin the military. Give him a soldier's pay while he's there and taxhim on it.

After his tour, he will be allowed to become a citizen since hedefended this country. He will also be registered to be taxed andbe a legal patriot. This option will probably deter illegal immigration and provide a solution for the troops in Iraq and the aliens trying to make a better life for themselves.

If they refuse to serve, ship them to Iraq anyway, without thecanteen, rifle or ammo. Problem solved.

Two recent stories have convinced me (well, reaffirmed my belief) that the illegal alien problem in this country has gone beyond crisis, to beyond insanity, to the point of sheer incomprehensible lunacy. I mean, no satirist could make up some of these incidents.

In Royse City, Texas, a police officer was suspicious of a man and ordered to lay on the ground. When he didn't comply, the officer made him do so.

And if that isn't bad enough, now we have this story that falls under the category of "no good deed goes unpunished."

Wendy's subsidiary, Cafe Express, had quite a few illegal aliens working for them. But that was OK; the aliens were enrolled in a program to become legal. But the law firm handling the matter dropped the ball and never filed the paperwork. When Wendy's found out that its illegal aliens were not covered by the program, it did the only thing it could: it fired them.

I see a simple solution to this: The next time there's a hearing, meeting, deposition, anything official, Wendy's attorneys show up with immigration officials. The instant the plaintiffs admit that they are illegal aliens, they are arrested and deported on the spot. End of lawsuit, end of problem.

One of the problems illegal aliens have is that they are often afraid of complaining against exploitation and abuse, because that brings them to the attention of the authorities. But in these cases, especially the Wendy's matter, there was no real exploitation. The police are under no obligation to cater to illegal aliens who can't even be bothered to learn the rudiments of the language of the nation they are invading, and the problem with the Wendy's workers was not Wendy's fault. The illegal aliens -- who had everything at stake in making sure that they were in compliance with the program to legitimize them -- should not have been so trusting of the law firm that apparently screwed them over.

But these two suits strike me as going way, way too far. These people all need to be shown the door (or, rather, the border) posthaste. They're learning how to be exactly the WRONG kind of immigrants we need. We have an overabundance of sue-happy asshats in this country already.

Friday, September 29, 2006

How ironic is this??!! They don't even believe in Christ and they're getting their own Christmas stamp, but don't dream of posting the ten commandments on federal property? USPS New StampThis one is impossible to believe. Scroll down for the text. If there is only one thing you forward today.....let it be this! REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of PanAm Flight 103!

REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the WorldTradeCenter in 1993!

REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon !

REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the military barracks in Saudi Arabia !

REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the American Embassies in Africa !

REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the USS COLE!

REMEMBER the MUSLIM attack on the Twin Towers on 9/11/2001 !

REMEMBER all the AMERICAN lives that were lost in those vicious MUSLIM attacks! Now the United States Postal Service REMEMBERS and HONORS the EID MUSLIM holiday season with a commemorative first class holiday postage stamp. REMEMBER to adamantly and vocally BOYCOTTthis stamp when purchasing your stamps at the post office. To use this stamp would be a slap in the face to all thoseAMERICANS who died at the hands of those whom this stamp honors.

Friday, August 11, 2006

1.) A king size waterbed holds enough water to fill a 2000 sq. ft. house 4 inches deep.

2.) If you spray hair spray on dust bunnies and run over them with roller blades, they can ignite.

3.) A 3-year old Boy's voice is louder than 200 adults in a crowded restaurant.

4.) If you hook a dog leash over a ceiling fan, the motor is not strong enough to rotate 42 pound Boy wearing Batman underwear and a Superman cape; It is strong enough, however, if tied to a paint can, to spread paint on all four walls of a 20x20 ft. room.

5.) You should not throw baseballs up when the ceiling fan is on. When using a ceiling fan as a bat, you have to throw the ball up a few times before you get a hit. A ceiling fan can hit a baseball a long way.

6.) The glass in windows (even double-pane) doesn't stop a baseball hit by a ceiling fan.

7.) When you hear the toilet flush and the words "uh oh", it's already too late.

8.) Brake fluid mixed with Clorox makes smoke, and lots of it.

9.) A six-year old Boy can start a fire with a flint rock even though a 36-year old man says they can only do it in the movies.

10.) Certain Legos will pass through the digestive tract of a 4-year old Boy.

11.) Play dough and microwave should not be used in the same sentence.

12.) Super glue is forever.

13.) No matter how much Jell-O you put in a swimming pool you still can't walk on water.

14.) Pool filters do not like Jell-O.

15.) VCR's do not eject "PB&J" sandwiches even though TV commercials show they do.

16.) Garbage bags do not make good parachutes.

17.) Marbles in gas tanks make lots of noise when driving.

18.) You probably DO NOT want to know what that odor is.

19.) Always look in the oven before you turn it on; plastic toys do not like ovens.

20.) The fire department in Austin, TX has a 5-minute response time.

21.) The spin cycle on the washing machine does not make earthworms dizzy.

22.) It will, however, make cats dizzy.

23.) Cats throw up twice their body weight when dizzy.

24.) 80% of Men who read this will try mixing the Clorox and brake fluid.

Those who pass this on to almost all of their friends, with or without boys, do it because:

a) For those with no children - this is totally hysterical! b) For those who already have children past this age, this is hilarious. c) For those who have children this age, this is not funny. d) For those who have children nearing this age, this is a warning. e) For those who have not yet had children, this is birth control!!

Sunday, August 06, 2006

Deep Thoughts for Those Who Take Life Way Too Seriously...1. Save the whales. Collect the whole set.2. A day without sunshine is like....night.3. On the other hand, you have different fingers.4. Remember, half the people you know are below average. 5. He who laughs last thinks slowest.6. Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.7. Support bacteria. They're the only culture some people have.8. A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. 9. How many of you believe in psychokinesis?...Raise my hand.10. OK...so what's the speed of dark?11. When everything is coming your way, you' re in the wrong lane.12. Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don't have film. 13. How much deeper would the ocean be without sponges.14. What happens if you get scared half to death twice?15. "I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder."16. Why do psychics have to ask you for your name? 17. Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what the hell happened.18. Just remember---if the world didn't suck, we would all fall off.19. Light travels faster than sound. That is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak. 20. Life isn't like a box of chocolates....it's more like a jar of jalapenos. What you do today, might burn your ass tomorrow.

Saturday, July 29, 2006

Introductory Note. Unless you're already well acquainted with our "national anthem," this interesting piece by the late Isaac Asimov will be an eye-opener. It was for me. It's especially appropriate at a time when there is much talk of tossing out this difficult-to-sing and difficult-to-comprehend old song in favor of something that better suits Ray Charles' voice. You'll understand the song much better after you read Mr. Asimov's explanation. --Hardly Waite, Gazette Senior Editor.

I have a weakness--I am crazy, absolutely nuts, about our national anthem.

The words are difficult and the tune is almost impossible, but frequently when I'm taking a shower I sing it with as much power and emotion as I can. It shakes me up every time.

I was once asked to speak at a luncheon. Taking my life in my hands, I announced I was going to sing our national anthem--all four stanzas.

This was greeted with loud groans. One man closed the door to the kitchen, where the noise of dishes and cutlery was loud and distracting. "Thanks, Herb," I said.

"That's all right," he said. "It was at the request of the kitchen staff."

I explained the background of the anthem and then sang all four stanzas.

Let me tell you, those people had never heard it before--or had never really listened.. I got a standing ovation But it was not me; it was the anthem.

More recently, while conducting a seminar, I told my students the story of the anthem and sang all four stanzas. Again there was a wild ovation and prolonged applause. And again, it was the anthem and not me.

So now let me tell you how it came to be written.

In 1812, the States went to war with Great Britain, primarily over freedom of the seas. We were in the right. For two years, we held off the British, even though we were still a rather weak country. Great Britain was in a life and death struggle with Napoleon. In fact, just as the United States declared war, Napoleon marched off to invade Russia. If he won, as everyone expected, he would control Europe, and Great Britain would be isolated. It was no time for her to be involved in an American war.

At first, our seamen proved better than the British. After we won a battle on Lake Erie in 1813, the American commander, Oliver Hazard Perry, sent the message "We have met the enemy and they are ours." However, the weight of the British navy beat down our ships eventually. New England, hard-hit by a tightening blockade, threatened secession.

Meanwhile, Napoleon was beaten in Russia and in 1814 was forced to abdicate. Great Britain now turned its attention to the United States, launching a three-pronged attack. The northern prong was to come down Lake Champlain toward New York and seize parts of New England. The southern prong was to go up the Mississippi, take New Orleans and paralyze the west. The central prong was to head for the mid-Atlantic states and then attack Baltimore, the greatest port south of New York. If Baltimore was taken, the nation, which still hugged the Atlantic coast, could be split in two. The fate of the United States, then, rested to a large extent on the success or failure of the central prong.

The British reached the American coast, and on August 24, 1814, took Washington, D. C. Then they moved up the Chesapeake Bay toward Baltimore. On September 12, they arrived and found 1000 men in Fort McHenry, whose guns controlled the harbor. If the British wished to take Baltimore, they would have to take the fort.

On one of the British ships was an aged physician, William Beanes, who had been arrested in Maryland and brought along as a prisoner. Francis Scott Key, a lawyer and friend of the physician, had come to the ship to negotiate his release. The British captain was willing, but the two Americans would have to wait. It was now the night of September 13, and the bombardment of Fort McHenry was about to start.

As twilight deepened, Key and Beanes saw the American flag flying over Fort McHenry. Through the night, they heard bombs bursting and saw the red glare of rockets. They knew the fort was resisting and the American flag was still flying. But toward morning the bombardment ceased, and a dread silence fell. Either Fort McHenry had surrendered and the British flag flew above it, or the bombardment had failed and the American flag still flew. As dawn began to brighten the eastern sky, Key and Beanes stared out at the fort, trying to see which flag flew over it. He and the physician must have asked each other over and over, "Can you see the flag?"

After it was all finished, Key wrote a four stanza poem telling the events of the night. Called "The Defense of Fort M'Henry," it was published in newspapers and swept the nation. Someone noted that the words fit an old English tune called "To Anacreon in Heaven" ?cents?,???oa difficult melody with an uncomfortably large vocal range. For obvious reasons, Key's work became known as "The Star Spangled Banner," and in 1931 Congress declared it the official anthem of the United States.

Now that you know the story, here are the words. Presumably, the old doctor is speaking. This is what he asks Key:

Oh! say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?

And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there. Oh! say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave

"Ramparts," in case you don't know, are the protective walls or other elevations that surround a fort. The first stanza asks a question. The second gives an answer:

On the shore, dimly seen thro' the mist of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep. As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?

Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream 'Tis the star-spangled banner. Oh! long may it wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

"The towering steep" is again, the ramparts. The bombardment has failed, and the British can do nothing more but sail away, their mission a failure.

In the third stanza, I feel Key allows himself to gloat over the American triumph. In the aftermath of the bombardment, Key probably was in no mood to act otherwise.

During World War II, when the British were our staunchest allies, this third stanza was not sung. However, I know it, so here it is:

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion A home and a country should leave us no more? Their blood has washed out their foul footstep's pollution.

No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave, And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

The fourth stanza, a pious hope for the future, should be sung more slowly than the other three and with even deeper feeling:

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved homes and the war's desolation, Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the Heav'n - rescued land Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserved us a nation.

Then conquer we must, for our cause is just, And this be our motto--"In God is our trust." And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

I hope you will look at the national anthem with new eyes. Listen to it, the next time you have a chance, with new ears.

Monday, June 19, 2006

Important History Lesson, from Raymond S. Kraft, a California lawyer, that sheds light on the Big Picture!

Sixty-three years ago, Nazi Germany had overrun almost all of Europeand hammered England to the verge of bankruptcy and defeat, and had sunk more than four hundred British ships in their convoys between England and America for food and war materials.

The US was in an isolationist, pacifist, mood, and most Americans andCongress wanted nothing to do with the European war, or the Asian war.

Then along came Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and in outrage Congress unanimously declared war on Japan, and the following day on Germany, which had not attacked us. It was a dicey thing. We had few allies.

France was not an ally, the Vichy government of France aligned with its German occupiers. Germany was not an ally, it was an enemy, and Hitler intended to set up a Thousand Year Reich in Europe. Japan was not an ally, it was intent on owning and controlling all of Asia. Japan and Germany had long-term ideas of invading Canada and Mexico, and then the United States over the north and south borders, after they had settled control of Asia and Europe.

America's allies then were England, Ireland, Scotland, Canada,Australia, and Russia, and that was about it. All of Europe, from Norway to Italy, except Russia in the east, was already under the Nazi heel.

America was not prepared for war. America had stood down most of its military after WWI and throughout the depression. At the outbreak of WWII there were army units training with broomsticks over their shoulders because they didn't have guns, and cars with "tank" painted on the doors because they didn't have tanks. And a big chunk of our navy had just been sunk and damaged at Pearl Harbor.

Britain had already gone bankrupt, saved only by the donation of $600millio n in gold bullion in the Bank of England that was the property of Belgium and was given by Belgium to England to carry on the war when Belgium was overrun by Hitler - actually, Belgium surrendered in one day, because it was unable to oppose the German invasion, and the Germans bombed Brussels into rubble the next day anyway just to prove they could. Britain had been holding out for two years already in the face of staggering shipping loses and the near-decimation of its air force in the Battle of Britain, and was saved from being overrun by Germany only because Hitler made the mistake of thinking the Brits were a relatively minor threat that could be dealt with later thereby turning his attention to Russia, at a time when England was on the verge of collapse in the late summer of 1940.

Russia saved America's butt by putting up a desper ate fight for twoyears until the US got geared up to begin hammering away at Germany.

Russia lost something like 24 million people in the sieges of Stalingrad and Moscow; 90% of them from cold and starvation, mostly civilians, but also more than a million soldiers. More than a million!!

Had Russia surrendered, Hitler would have been able to focus hisentire campaign against the Brits, then America, and the Nazis would have won that war.

I say this to illustrate that turning points in history are oft endicey things. And we are at another turning point now.

There is a very dangerous minority in Islam that either has, or wants and may soon have, the ability to deliver small nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons, almost anywhere in the world, unless they are prevented from doing so.

The Jihadis, the militant Muslims, are basically Nazis in Kaffiyahs - they believe that Islam, a radically conservative (definitely not liberal!) form of Wahhabi Islam, should own and control the Middle East first, then Europe, then the world, and that all who do not bow to Allah should be killed, enslaved, or subjugated. They want to finish the Holocaust, destroy Israel, purge the world of Jews. This is what they say.

There is also a civil war raging in the Middle East - for the mostpart not a hot war, but a war of ideas. I slam is having its Inquisition and its Reformation today, but it is not yet known which will win - the Inquisition, or the Reformation.

If the Inquisition wins, then the Wahhabis, the Jihadis, will controlthe Middle East, and the OPEC oil, and the US, European, and Asian economies, the techno-industrial economies, will be at the mercy of OPEC - not an OPEC dominated by the well-educated and rational Saudis of today, but an OPEC dominated by the Jihadis.

You want gas in your car? You want heating oil next winter? You wantjobs? You want the dollar to be worth anything? You better hope the Jihad, the Muslim Inquisition, loses, and the Islamic Reformation wins.

If the Reformation movement wins, that is, the moderate Muslims whobelieve that Islam can respect and tolerate other religions, and live in peace with the rest of the world, and move out of the 10th century into the 21st, then the troubles in the Middle East will eventually fade away, and a moderate and prosperous Middle East will emerge.

We have to help the Reformation win, and to do that we have to fightthe Inquisition, i.e., the Wahhabi movement, the Jihad, Al Qaeda, the Islamic terrorist movements. We have to do it somewhere. We cannot do it nowhere. And we cannot do it everywhere at once. We have created a focal point for the battle now at the time and place of our choosing, in Iraq.

Not in New York, not in London, or Paris, or Berlin, but in Iraq,where we did and are doing two very important things.

(1) We deposed Saddam Hussein. Whether Saddam Hussein was directlyinvolved in 9/11 or not, it is undisputed that Saddam has been actively supporting the terrorist movement for d ecades. Saddam is a terrorist. Saddam is himself, or was, a weapon of mass destruction, who is responsible for the deaths of probably more than a million Iraqis and two million Iranians.

(2) We created a battle, a confrontation, a flash point, with Islamic terrorism in Iraq. We have focused the battle. We are killing bad guys there and the ones we get there we won't have to get here, or anywhere else. We also have a good shot at creating a democratic, peaceful Iraq, which will be a catalyst for democratic change in the rest of the Middle East, and an outpost for a stabilizing American military presence in the Middle Ea st for as long as it is needed.

World War II, the war with the German and Japanese Nazis, really beganwith a "whimper" in 1928. It did not begin with Pearl Harbor. It began with the Japanese invasion of China. It was a war for fourteen years before America joined it. It officially ended in 1945 - a 17 year war - and was followed by another decade of US occupation in Germany and Japan to get those countries reconstructed and running on their own again .. a 27 year war.

World War II cost the United States an amount equal to approximately afull year's GDP - adjusted for inflation, equal to about $12 trillion dollars, WWII cost America more than 40 0,000 killed in action, and nearly 100,000 still missing in action.

The Iraq war has, so far, cost the US about $160 billion, which isroughly what 9/11 cost New York. It has also cost about 2,200 American lives, which is roughly 1/2 of the 3,000 lives that the Jihad snuffed out on 9/11. But the cost of not fighting and winning WWII would have been unimaginably greater - a world now dominated by German and Japanese Nazism.

Americans have a short attention span, now, conditioned I suppose by60 minute TV shows and 2-hour movies in which everything comes out okay.

The real world is not like that. It is messy, uncertain,and sometimes bloody and ugly. Always has been, and probably always will be.

The bottom line here is that we will have to deal with Islamicterrorism until we defeat it, whenever that is. It will not go away on its own. It will not go away if we ignore it.

If the US can create a reasonably democratic and stable Iraq, then we have an "England" in the Middle East, a platform, from which we can work to help modernize and moderate the Middle East. The history of the world is the clash between the forces of relative civility and civilization, and the barbarians clamoring at the gates. The Iraq war is merely another battle in this ancient and never-ending war. And now, for the first time ever, the barbarians are about to get nuclear weapons. Unless we prevent them. Or somebody does.

We have four options

1. We can defeat the Jihad now , before it gets nuclear weapons.

2. We can fight the Jihad later, after it gets nuclear weapons (whichmay be as early as next year, if Iran's progress on nuclear weapons is what Iran claims it is).

3. We can surrender to the Jihad and accept its dominance in theMiddle East now, in Europe in the next few years or decades, and ultimately in America.

4. Or we can stand down now, and pick up the fight later when the Jihad is more widespread and better armed, perhaps after the Jihad has dominated France and Germany and maybe most of the rest of Europe. It will be more dangerous, more expensive, and much bloodier then.

Yes, the Jihadis say that they look forward to an Islamic America. If you oppose this war, I hope you like the idea that your children, or grandchildren, may live in an Islamic America under the Mullahs and the Sharia, an America that resembles Iran today.

We can be defeatist peace-activists as anti-war types seem to be, and concede, surrender , to the Jihad, or we can do whatever it takes to win this war against them.

The history of the world is the history of civilizational clashes,cultural clashes. All wars are about ideas, ideas about what society and civilization should be like, and the most determined always win.

Those who are willing to be the most ruthless always win. Thepacifists always lose, because the anti-pacifists kill them.

In the 20th century, it was Western democracy vs. communism, andbefore that Western democracy vs. Nazism, and before that Western democracy vs. German Imperialism. Western democracy won, three times, but it wasn't cheap, fun, nice, easy, or quick. Indeed, the wars against German Imperialism (WWI), Nazi Imperialism (WWII), and communist imperialism (the 40-year Cold War that included the Vietnam Battle, commonly called the Vietnam War, but itself a major battle in a larger war) covered almost the entire century.

The first major war of the 21st Century is the war between WesternJudeo/Christian Civilization and Wahhabi Islam. It may last a few more years, or most of this century. It will last until the Wahhabi branch of Islam fades away, or gives up its ambitions for regional and global dominance and Jihad, or until Western Civilization gives in to the J ihad.

It will take time. It will not go with no hitches. This is not TV.

Remember, perspective is everything, and America's schools teach toolittle history for perspective to be clear, especially in the young American mind.

The Cold war lasted from about 1947 at least until the Berlin Wallcame down in 1989. Forty-two years. Europe spent the first half of the 19th century fighting Napoleon, and from 1870 to 1945 fighting Germany.

World War II began in 1928, lasted 17 years, plus a ten yearoccupation, and the US still has troops in Germany and Japan. World War I I resulted in the death of more than 50 million people, maybe more than 100 million people, depending on which estimates you accept.

The US has taken a little more than 2,000 KIA in Iraq. The US tookmore than 4,000 Killed in action on the morning of June 6, 1944, the first day of the Normandy Invasion to rid Europe of Nazi Imperialism. In WWII the US averaged 2,000 KIA a week for four years. Most of the individual battles of WWII lost more Americans than the entire Iraq war has done so far.

But the stakes are at least as high . . . a world dominat ed byrepresentative governments with civil rights, human rights, and personal freedoms or a world dominated by a radical Islamic Wahhabi movement, by the Jihad, under the Mullahs and the Sharia (Islamic law).

I do not understand why the American Left does not grasp this. Theyfavor human rights, civil rights, liberty and freedom, but evidently not for Iraqis. In America, absolutely, but nowhere else.

300,000 Iraqi bodies in mass graves in Iraq are not our problem? The US population is about twelve times that of Iraq, so let's multiply 300,000 by twelve. What would you think if there were 3,600,000 American bodies in mass graves in America because of George Bush? Would you hope for another country to help liberate America?

Why don't we see Peace Activist demonstrating in Iran, Syria, Iraq,Sudan, North Korea, in the places in the world that really need peace activism the most?

The liberal mentality is supposed to favor human rights, civil rights,democracy, mu lticulturalism, diversity, etc., but if the Jihad wins, wherever the Jihad wins, it is the end of civil rights, human rights, democracy, multiculturalism, diversity, etc. Americans who oppose the liberation of Iraq are coming down on the side of their own worst enemy.

If the Jihad wins, it is the death of Liberalism. Everywhere theJihad wins, it is the death of Liberalism. American Liberals just don't get it.

Raymond S. Kraft is a writer and lawyer living in Northern California.

Please consider passing along copies of this to students in high school, college and university as it contains information about the American past that is very meaningful TODAY - - history about America that very likely is completely unknown by them (and their ins tructors, too). By being denied the facts and truth of our history, they are at a decided disadvantage when it comes to reasoning and thinking through the issues of today.

They are prime targets for misinformation campaigns beamed atenlisting them in causes and beliefs that are special interest agenda driven.

Friday, May 26, 2006

Simple statement? True? The answer to both is Yes. Is it a good thing. Not necessarily.

Everywhere in the news we see how things are changing. Our law makers are taking bribes. We are being invaded by millions of people who don't give a damn about this country. Even the Mexican government is threatening us and taking tours of cities to see where he can send more of his people. Yet when those of us who give a damn what is happening to this country speak up, we are being racists, etc. We have to be politically correct. Well I am no politician. I don't have to be politically correct! But since we as a society supposedly have embraced this I guess I can only say I am offended...

I am offended by..

... our elected officials who refuse to listen to us and say they are doing what we want.

... politically correctness.

... having to work my ass off to support people that don't even belong here.

... having to listen to someone cry and bitch about their miserable life when they won't even try to help themselves.

... going to a store and having to try and understand the person working there because they don't speak ENGLISH.

... being told I need to learn spanish because we are becoming bi-lingual.

... people saying they are african, mexican, italian - Americans. Face it. You are either one or the other. Pick one. If it's other than American, go there and live. The only exception to this is Native Americans. There are from here.

... Not being able to afford a buy a home because some stupid foreigner has bought up everything in sight and driven prices so high the average working family can't afford to buy any more.

... idiots who disrespect those of us who have fought for this country, Our soldiers and sailors. Prime example in the news..Cindy Sheehan. She, along with that idiot so called preacher in Kansas and their groups are traitors to this nation. Denounce their citizenship, Deport them, freeze their accounts take whatever property they think they own and give it all to those who need it the most, here in America.

Thursday, May 25, 2006

This message was sent to the following a message system I have access to. It has not been edited in anyway with the exception of removing certain personal information. Whether or not it does any good is beyond my control. I have sent many letters through this and have recieved responses from every one of the representatives list including the White House. Someone is reading them.

Right now, the Senate is debating its amnesty bill, a surrender to illegal aliens. Unless citizens respond,the Senate will grant amnesty to millions of illegals.The vote is imminent--before Memorial Day. I justsigned a petition urging our elected leaders to Secure our Borders and say "No" to Amnesty.With this bill we are giving this country away! We as a nation are beingthreatened by a third world country, overun with foriegn nationals whohave no rights here,yet are living off of the taxes I and millions of other Americans pay every day. Mexico and her government have threaten totake us to court if we refuse thier people entry. Yet, we hear from themedia that OUR government is saying basically that's ok. What did I spend 22 years in the naval service to protect? I volunteered to protect thefreedoms of this country and her borders. I am not against legalimmigration. I am against giving this great country away. Vote NO onthis. Secure our borders, ship these people home and let them come back legally. Fine the companies that hire them, knowing they are illegals.Take back the control we elected you to have. Forget Political Correctnessand do what our forefathers did. This is our country!

Right now, the Senate is debating its amnesty bill, asurrender to illegal aliens. Unless citizens respond,the Senate will grant amnesty to millions of illegals. The vote is imminent--before Memorial Day. I justsigned a petition urging our elected leaders toSecure our Borders and say "No" to Amnesty.

Thursday, May 18, 2006

Did you know that when an illegal gets citizenship, they can apply to have their illegal earnings applied to their social security? So today the senate voted DOWN an amendment for the immigration bill that would prevent that! Social Security is going broke, I will probably never see a fucking dime I have paid in but a bunch of fucking illegal aliens probably will and they haven't even paid into it. Bunch of fucking pussies!

Oh, and here's some news too....you know that the mexican govt has demanded, DE-fucking-MANDED that our govt guarantee them that the national guard will perform NO border duties, and in fact will do nothing to threaten migrant rights, and OUR GOVT ASSURED THEM THEY WOULD NOT!!!! How can a FORIEGN GOVERNMENT Threaten to SUE the US if we protect our own borders?

Have those idiots up there lost what little minds they have left? I think it's about time to take over Mexico, because they damn sure are trying to take us over and if they succeed this place will be just as big a dumb is they are now.

Think about this: If you don't want to copy and forward this for fearof offending someone-----YOU'RE PART OF THE PROBLEM !!!!

Will we still be the Country of choice and still be America if wecontinue to make the changes forced on us by the people from othercountries that came to live in America because it is the Country ofChoice??????

Think about it!

All we have to say is, when will they do something about MY RIGHTS?

I celebrate Christmas...........but because it isn't celebrated byeveryone..............we can no longer say Merry Christmas. Now it hasto be Season's Greetings.

We've gone so far the other way, bent over backwards to not offendanyone, that I am now being offended. But it seems that no one has aproblem with that.This says it all!

This is an editorial written by an American citizen, published in aTampa newspaper. He did quite a job; didn't he? Read on, please!

IMMIGRANTS,NOT AMERICANS,MUST ADAPT.I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending someindividual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11,we have experienced a surgein patriotism by the majority of Americans. However...... the dustfrom the attacks had barely settled when the "politically correct! "crowd began complaining aboutthe possibility that our patriotism was offending others.

I am not against immigration, nor do I hold a grudge against anyonewho is seeking a better life by coming to America.Our population is almost entirely made up of descendants of immigrants.However, there are a few things that those who have recently come toour country, and apparently some born here, need to understand.This idea of America being a multicultural communityhas served only to dilute our sovereignty and our national identity.As Americans......we have our own culture, our own society, our own language and our ownlifestyle. This culture has been developed over centuries ofstruggles, trials, and victories by millions of men and women who havesought freedom.

We speak ENGLISH, not Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese,Russian, or any other language. Therefore, if you wish to become partof our society, learn the language!

"In God We Trust" is our national motto. This is not some Christian,right wing, political slogan.. We adopted this motto because Christianmen and women.......on Christian principles.............founded this nation..... and this is clearly documented.It is certainly appropriate to display it on the walls of our schools.If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another part of the world asyour new home.........because God is part of our culture.

If Stars and Stripes offend you, or you don't like Uncle Sam, then youshould seriously consider a move to another part of this planet.We are happy with our culture and have no desire to change, and we reallydon't care how you did things where you came from.

This is OUR COUNTRY,our land, and our lifestyle.Our First Amendment gives every! citizen the right to express hisopinion and wewill allow you every opportunity to do so!But once you are done complaining....... whining...... andgriping....... about our flag....... our pledge...... our nationalmotto........or our way of life....I highly encourage you to takeadvantage of one other Great American Freedom.......

THE RIGHT TO LEAVE.

It is Time for America to Speak upIf you agree --Copy and pass this along;if you don't agree -- don't!

AMEN

I figure if we all keep passing this to our friends (and enemies) itwill also, sooner or later get back to the complainers, lets all try,please.

Monday, May 15, 2006

Urban Legends even acknowledges this as truth. I knew I had Searsstock for a reason. God Bless our troops????..

I assume you have all seen the reports about how Sears is treating itsreservist employees who are called up? By law, they are required tohold their jobs open and available, but nothing more. Usually, peopletake a big pay cut and lose benefits as a result of being calledup...Sears is voluntarily paying the difference in salaries andmaintaining all benefits, including medical insurance and bonusprograms, for all called up reservist employees for up to two years. Isubmit that Sears is an exemplary corporate citizen and should berecognized for its contribution

Suggest we all shop at Sears, and be sure to find a manager to tellthem why we are there so the company gets the positive reinforcementit well deserves

So I, decided to check it out before I sent it forward. I sent thefollowing email to the Sears Customer Service Department:

I received this email and I would like to know if it is true. If itis, the Internet may have just become one very good source ofadvertisement for your store. I know I would go out of my way to buyproducts from Sears instead of another store for a like item even ifit was cheaper at the other store.

Here is their answer to my email.....................

Dear Customer:

Thank you for contacting Sears.

The information is factual. We appreciate your positive feedback.Sears regards service to our country as one of greatest sacrifices ouryoung men and women can make. We are happy to do our part to lessenthe burden they bear at this time.

Bill ThornSears Customer Carewebcenter@sears.com1-800-349-4358

Please pass this on to all your friends, Sears needs to be recognizedfor this outstanding contribution and we need to show them asAmericans, we do appreciate what they are doing for ourmilitary!!!!!!!!!!!

Although I can not verify if this is from Andy Rooney, I am posting itreguardless. I agree totally with whoever said it, as I have said muchof it before myself.

Right on, Andy Rooney!

Andy Rooney said on "60 Minutes" a few weeks back:

I don't think being a minority makes you a victim of anything exceptnumbers. The only things I can think of that are truly discriminatoryare things like the United Negro College Fund, Jet Magazine, BlackEntertainment Television, and Miss Black America. Try to have thingslike the United Caucasian College Fund, Cloud Magazine, WhiteEntertainment Television, or Miss White America and see whathappens...Jesse Jackson will be knocking down your door.

Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. Youcan kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying toban you from driving to the ball game.

I believe they are called the Boy Scouts for a reason, that is whythere are no girls allowed. Girls belong in the Girl Scouts! ARE YOULISTENING MARTHA BURKE?

I think that if you feel homosexuality is wrong, it is not a phobia,it is an opinion.

I have the right "NOT" to be tolerant of others because they aredifferent, weird, or tick me off.

When 70% of the people who get arrested are black, in cities where 70%of the population is black, that is not racial profiling, it is theLaw of Probability.

I believe that if you are selling me a milkshake, a pack ofcigarettes, a newspaper or a hotel room, you must do it in English!As a matter of fact, if you want to be an American citizen, you shouldhave to speak English!

My father and grandfather didn't die in vain so you can leave thecountries you were born in to come over and disrespect ours.

I think the police should have every right to shoot your sorry ass ifyou threaten them after they tell you to stop. If you can't understandthe word "freeze" or "stop" in English, see the above lines.

I don't think just because you were not born in this country, you arequalified for any special loan programs, government sponsored bankloans or tax breaks, etc., so you can open a hotel, coffee shop,trinket store, or any other business.

We did not go to the aid of certain foreign countries and risk ourlives in wars to defend their freedoms, so that decades later theycould come over here and tell us our constitution is a livingdocument; and open to their interpretations.

I don't hate the rich I don't pity the poor.

I know pro wrestling is fake, but so are movies and television. Thatdoesn't stop you from watching them.

I think Bill Gates has every right to keep every penny he made andcontinue to make more. If it ticks you off, go and invent the nextoperating system that's better, and put your name on the building.

It doesn't take a whole village to raise a child right, but it doestake a parent to stand up to the kid; and smack their little behindswhen necessary, and say "NO!"

I think tattoos and piercing are fine if you want them, but pleasedon't pretend they are a political statement. And, please, stay homeuntil that new lip ring heals. I don't want to look at your uglyinfected mouth as you serve me French fries!

I am sick of "Political Correctness." I know a lot of black people,and not a single one of them was born in Africa; so how can they be"African-Americans"? Besides, Africa is a continent. I don't go aroundsaying I am a European-American because my great, great, great, great,great, great grandfather was from Europe. I am proud to be fromAmerica and nowhere else

And if you don't like my point of view, tough...

I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG, OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ANDTO THE REPUBLIC, FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD,INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL!

I was asked to send this on if I agree or delete if I don't. It issaid that 86% of Americans believe in God. Therefore I have a veryhard time understanding why there is such a problem in having "In GodWe Trust" on our money and having "God" in the Pledge of Allegiance.Why don't we just tell the 14% to Shut Up and BE QUIET!!!

"Oh yeah?" the guy asks, "Then answer this -- how do you hang onto your perch without any feet?"

"Well," the parrot says, "this is very embarrassing but since you asked, I wrap my weenie around this wooden bar like a little hook. You can't see it because of my feathers."

"Wow," says the guy. "You really can understand and speak English can't you?"

"Actually, I speak both Spanish and English, and I can converse with reasonable competence on almost any topic: politics, religion, sports, physics, philosophy. I'm especially good at ornithology. You really ought to buy me. I'd be a great companion."

The guy looks at the $20000 price tag. "Sorry, but I just can't afford that."

"Pssssssst," says the parrot, "I'm defective, so the truth is, nobody wants me cause I don't have any feet. You can probably get me for $20; just make the guy an offer!"

The guy offers $20 and walks out with the parrot.

Weeks go by. The parrot is sensational. He has a great sense of humor, he's interesting, he's a great pal, he understands everything, he sympathizes, and he's insightful. The guy is delighted.

One day the guy comes home from work and the parrot goes, "Psssssssssssst," and motions him over with one wing. "I don't know if I should tell you this or not, but it's about your wife and the postman."

"What are you talking about?" asks the guy.

"When the postman delivered the mail today, your wife greeted him at the door in a sheer black nightie."

"WHAT???" the guy asks incredulously. "THEN what happened?"

"Well, then the postman came into the house and lifted up her nightie and began petting her all over," reported the parrot.

"NO!" he exclaims. "And she let him?"

"Yes. Then he continued taking off the nightie! , got down on his knees and began to kiss her all over...."